A High School Teacher’s Use of ClassDojo
Class Dojo is one of my favorite apps that I utilize in my high school English classroom. Instead of using it as a classroom management tracker, I use it to monitor class discussion.
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#25inFive – August 2018
During the month of July, I attempted to follow my own advice and read for a suggested twenty minutes a day. I encourage my students to read for that amount of time each day to make consistent progress on their Independent Reading unit – Reading Bingo. This graphic finds itself in every one of my…
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Preparing for a new school year is overwhelming whether you are a new teacher, a veteran teacher, or a teacher in the middle of your career. For me, I’m starting the school year in a new district, so I have a lot to do, such as setting up my classroom, organizing my classroom library, and…
Crime Course Reading List
True crime and crime fiction are two genres that have exploded in popular culture. I am just as guilty as the next person to be fascinated with the psychology of the killers, thanks to Criminal Minds; the plot surrounding a crime, kudos to Dateline with Lester Holt reruns; and the characters involved as depicted in…
Book Review – The Cay
The Cay | Theodore Taylor The Cay #1 | 156 pages | 1969 Historical Fiction, Young Adult Literature ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – Shelf Worthy From the Back of the Book “Shipwrecked! All his life Phillip had looked down upon black-skinned people. Now, suddenly, he was a refugee from a fatal shipwreck, and dependent on an extraordinary West…
Why I’m Rewatching 13 RW S1
In mid-May, I was talking with a few student-athletes at a regional track meet about their a quarterly assignment that was due the night before for my class. The assignment always seems to get done at the last minute with the group of students I was talking with, so I was sympathizing with them the…
The Unread Shelf Project 2018
While scrolling through Instagram at the end of the 2017, I stumbled upon several users posting about their plans to tackle the Unread Shelf Project in 2018. Being one to have a large amount of books that are unread, I was intrigued and motivated to tackle it. After counting up and sorting through all of…
Announcement – Blog Merge!
I am planning on merging blog posts from my Weebly site to this new site, so I have decided to merge the two blogs that I created – The Avalanche of Books and EduCollecTIONs – into one blog page. The Avalanche of Books – As an avid reader, I am constantly hearing about books. I…
What is the Maker Movement?
Prior to taking CEP 811: Adapting Innovative Technology to Education, my understanding of Maker Movement was limited to a few social media posts from Master of Arts in Education Technology staff and students, along with the few makerspaces I had heard about in libraries and various school districts and classrooms. Other than those limited vantage…
Learning Space Design Activity
In a perfect world, teachers would be able to create their ideal classrooms with all the supplies and materials they could ever want … no questions asked. In today’s world, teachers are able to claim up to $250 off of their taxes for personal spending that was used towards their classrooms and students. They are…